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Linda and Brian,
Let’s not waste any more money on study. The message should’ve be clear. Short term sound barrier on fence adjacent to apartments on tennis court 5 at Nealon. Long term build 12 permanent pickleball courts at Burgess. Let’s get the city of Menlo Park
moving on pickleball projects.
DavidYoshida
Sent from my iPad On Mar 7, 2024, at 3:03 PM, Linda Itskovitz wrote:
Yes, let me second and third and fourth that. Lets not waste our precious money. Thank you.
On Fri, Mar 8, 2024, 3:00 AM Brian Kissel < brian.kissel@gmail.com> wrote: (mailto:brian.kissel@gmail.com)
Please dont let the Parks & Rec department spend $85K on a study about pickleball. As you can see below, there are much better uses of that money. We have done countless surveys and usage studies over the
past couple of years and its pretty clear that the city isnt going to convert even one more tennis court to dual use despite the data on increased demand and lack of capacity for Pickleball. If thats the case, then lets spend whatever funds we would have
spent on the study on things we know we need now:
* Sound barriers around the Nealon and Kelly Park courts with a priority for Nealon Park
* Re-striping the Nealon Courts as permanent courts at a minimum. Its much more important to make the Nealon courts permanent and marked specifically for PB. The Kelly park courts get much lower usage for either PB or tennis, so
if you want to save costs, just make the Nealon courts dedicated to PB.
* Establish a fund for maintenance and repair of the PB nets
* Repair all the lights at Nealon tennis courts
* Provide some benches outside the courts at Nealon so players have a place to sit off the courts while they wait to play (which is very often). Making players wait on the court impedes play and creates safety issues both for players
and those waiting.
* As Jim Schott mentioned in his email, the Hillview High School is contractually obligated to contribute $10K every 10 years and probably has not made any such contributions. So lets access those funds and apply them to the enhancements
noted above.
* If there are additional funds available, apply them to creating plans for new dedicated PB courts at Burgess Park for longer term additional court capacity.
If youd like to have an open forum with the PB community, we can find a date and time for an in person and/or Zoom session to discuss this before the P&R department spends up to $85K of precious resources that wont address the near term needs of the
PB community at all.
Cheers, Brian
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